European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Books Kinsey Millhone cracks a new Case in the same Dressy Usa Levitt Ryckman the associated press Insey Millhone the private investigator with the perpetual hair emergency lives in a converted one car garage somewhere along the Well tended highways of be Grafton a mind. Count on Kinsey to emerge once a year in another alphabetic adventure a a a in is for innocent is the latest a to crack Wise while she cracks the Case a Tough cookie with a sweetly vulnerable Center. A Kinsey sees herself As a kick ass private Eye a said Grafton a Youthful 52-year-old with a mane of dark hair and wide set eyes that laugh even when she does no to. A everybody else tends to Mother her. And she does no to understand the Gap Between the two. She does no to understand How she a Kinsey a a Clear Winner with readers who put a go is for Gumshoe on the Best seller list and kept off is for homicide there for 15 weeks. In the inventive entertaining innocent Kinsey tackles another classic whodunit with the self Assurance and savvy asides that have won her fans of both sexes. A part of it is i have no a to grind a Grafton said reflecting on Kinsey s Universal Appeal. A i am not writing political anything. I hate politics. And i have no message to deliver. I have no theory about How men and women proceed together in the world a she changes her mind before the sentence ends. She has two theories both of which sound remarkably Kinsey ish either men and women arc basically the same a for men arc actually it is Kinsey for All her gumption who sounds at times like the sister from another planet. Twice divorced childless and mostly manless she handles a Roscoe and plays Footsie with killers like a pro. But when it comes to girl stuff Kinsey a strictly a lost Ball in tall weeds. A i think she is mystified by femininity a Grafton said. A a she a a very natural person. You know she does no to Wear make up. Nobody a Ever taught her How to do this stuff. Almost like a sub sub sub theme is her constant observation of women in action going a How do they know How to do that a a her one dress is an All purpose Long sleeved Black number in a some exotic blend of polyester you could Bury for a year without generating a mostly she thinks about murder usually somebody cd see a although she comes close to her own in innocent. It begins at the moment of what is ostensibly her death with Kinsey bemoaning her failure to Quot i is for innocent Quot is the newest of sue Grafton s alphabetical murder mysteries. Tidy her Chest of drawers the night before. Kinsey was born in the late 70sto some couple who put an announcement in the Hollywood reporter. That a where Grafton already a novelist and screenwriter saw the name and fell in love with it. She unveiled her own Kinsey in 1982 in a a a is for Alibi a murder mystery inspired by the authors unfulfilled Homicidal urges toward an sex husband. Grafton a Kinsey books have helped open the door of the once exclusive menus club of hard boiled Tough Guy detective fiction dominated by Dashill Hammett Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald All writers she admires. A i did no to choose a female private Eye for any reason except that being female is what i knew a Grafton said. A i did no to have the nerve to write from a Many a Point of View because we know they come from outer space. Who knows what life is like on their planet a 7�?T is for ? is already Well under Way. Grafton typically produces one a year after months of what she Calls a organized a i sometimes think i done to write these books a i just discover them. I like to imagine they re already written and my Job is to ferret them out of the inky void wherever they May be Quot Grafton said. A this is a boldfaced lie. I know i have to write every single sentence. 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